The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC.

| A Large Crowd, Splendid Dinner, and u
Good Time.
| At a little after o'clock yesterday
| morning the members of the Methodist
| Sunday School, and their friends. left
for Racy Point, where they went to hold
their annual May picnic. There were
about one hundred and fifty of the pic
nickers, and they were supplied with
quite an array of baskets loaded with
the good things that go to make one of
the chief attractions of day in the
| woods.
Racy Point is beautiful place, and
well suited for picnic purposes, and the
little ones yesterday made the best of
their holiday, and to say that they en-
joyed the day thoroughly only half tells
the story.
Early in the morning, while shooting a
little single barreled gun, the young son
of Mr.. Joseph Lynn was pretty severely
hurt about the face and head by the gun
exploding. 1t seems the boy had loaded
it entirely too heavy, and being one of
those light cheap guns it burst, bruising
his face and filling it with powder, but
doing him no serious injury. He had a
narrow escape as did several other boys
who We're standing by him when the
gun exploded.
Another boy, whose name we did
not learn, fell overheard but was pulled
out none the worse for his bath.
A friend who attended the picnic
handed us the following account of the
days doings, last night:
Editor Of the Paldtkd NeIcs.
The picnic given to-day by the Meth
odist Sunday School is a thing of the
past, and like almost all of our days of
pleasure had its bitter as well as sweet.
n few minutes before a. m. the trim
steamers Princess and Escort of the
fleet of genial, hearty, good-natured,
Commodore j. f. Lucas, with a large
lighter between them, pulled out mid
stream, and stemmed for Racy Point
with as bright, happy, pretty, (meaning
this word for the ladies of course) and
healthy an average 40 people as can be
found in the country.
The ever genial, thoughtful, prudent
and sensible Sam" lowered among the
''wee folks" as giant of authorita-
tive thoughtfulness, reminding one of an
imaginative picnic that might have been
given by the lamented Brigham Young
for the benefit of his numerous and in
teresting family" But even his care
could not or unfortunately did not prevent
what came very near being sad re-
minder of the epitaph:
boy fun
Brought gun
Gun Dust
Boy DUST
Mr.. Lynn's little boy Auric, in at
tempting to have little fun, overloaded
a gun, and its bursting filled his face
with powder and cut little place over
his right eye. Temporarily it threw a
damper over the enjoyment of the com
pany until it was found that no serious
damage was done when ''all went merry
as the marriage bells except with little
Auric, whose face panied him a good
deal. Of course the sympathy of all
went out for him and for his mother as
well, who suffered a considerable shock
at the news before she was aware of the
extent of the damage.
The day was spent in swinging, play
ing, romping, eating, laughing and gem
eral merrymaking, and when the boats
whistled to leave it was all too soon for
many light hearts and laughing eyes.
Yours truly, JULIET
7. S. forgot to say that Mangold's
artist took the ''figger" of the crowd as
81,